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Characters in Context (CiC): Literary Circle

Is an informal, inter-departmental literary circle for faculty and students. Organized by graduate students in the Department of Germanic Studies, CiC will host lectures and poetry readings intended to contribute to and enrich the university's cultural program. Presentations will (as a general rule) be held in English, in order to include and attract participants from a variety of disciplines. The focus of the Circle is primarily literary, but presentations on other cultural topics are equally welcome. Sessions often lead to a Happy Hour at the Cactus Café. All interested are cordially invited to participate in meetings. Feel free to spread the word.

CiC presents its Fall, 2000, lecture series:

"EXPERIENCING — REFLECTING — READING — WRITING"

Friday, 10/20/00 at 3:00 p.m.:

Marike Janzen: "Between the Pedagogical and the Performative: Identity Formation, Public Narratives, and Social Criticism in Anna Seghers' Überfahrt"

Friday, 10/27/00 at 3:00 p.m.:

Michael Connor: "Anton Reiser: A Middle-Class Sisyphus"

Tuesday, 10/31 (time TBA):

Halloween Poetry Reading

All events will take place in the Conference Room (4.104) of E.P. Schoch.

For questions or comments, please contact Nike Arnold (nikearnold@mail.utexas.edu) or Agnieszka Nance (nance@texas.net).

After commemorating Goethe's 250th Birthday (Spring 1999) and dealing with literary and cultural movements coinciding with the Turns of the Centuries (Fall 1999), the UT Literary Circle Characters in Context announces its Spring 2000 lecture series entitled History / Fiction / Theory. All sessions will be held on Fridays at 3:00 pm at EPS 4.104 (Conference Room).

HISTORY / FICTION / THEORY

Opening Lecture: February 4, 3:00
Pascale Bos, Professor of Germanic and Netherlandic Studies
"The Shoah at the End of the 20th Century: Problems of Memory, Representation and Significance Fifty-Five Years After"

2nd Lecture: March 3, 3:00
Bjoern Freitag, MA, Germanic Studies
"Fabricated History: Masculine Identity in German Fraternities"

3rd Lecture: March 24, 3:00
Ivan Eidt, MA, Gemanic Studies
"Heidegger and Meister Eckhard: Historical Reflections on the Death of God"

4th Lecture: April 7, 3:00
Harry Louis Roddy, MA, Germanic Studies
"Maiming by Naming: Signifying Death in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow"

5th Lecture: April 21, 3:00
Sandra Frink, MA, History
"The Politics of Seduction: Sexuality, Gender and Power in American Anti-Catholic Popular Narratives 1830-1860"

Special Event: May 3
*Poetry Reading*
(time & topic t.b.a.)

Fall 1999 Lecture Schedule

Sept. 10 (Fri): Opening Lecture
ECLIPSES, FLOODS, AND OTHER BIEDERMEIER CATASTROPHES
- The theatrum mundi of Revolution
Katherine Arens
Professor, Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature

Sept. 24 (Fri): 2nd Lecture
WRITING THE "OTHER" EUROPE
- Fictions of Identity in Peter Nadas's Book of Memories -
Edward Manouelian
Professor, Slavic Languages

Oct. 8 (Fri): 3rd Lecture
MARTIN LUTHER'S LITURGICAL WRITINGS
- How Close Adherence to Speech Melody Both Reshaped Music and Redefined the Role of Music in Worship
Angela Ferguson
MA, Germanic Studies

Oct. 13 (Wed): 4th Lecture
GOETHE'S FAUST AND NECROMANTIC NATIONALISM
- An Experiment in Protopostcolonial Tragedy
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Professor, Dept. of English
Oct. 13 (Wed), 4:30

Oct. 22 (Fri): 5th Lecture
ENNUI IN ITALY
- Goethe's Other Italian Journey -
Peter Hess
Professor, Germanic Studies

Nov. 3 (Wed): 6th Lecture
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH GOETHE
- J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5 and the German Tradition
Michael Connor
MA, Germanic Studies
Nov. 3 (Wed), 4:30

Nov. 17 (Wed): 7th Lecture
DRACULA AND HIS HEIRS
- Past and Present Reflections of the Vampire in Literature -
Erol Boran
MA, Germanic Studies
Nov. 17 (Wed), 4:30

Nov. 24 (WED):8th Lecture
THE SHOAH AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- Problems of Memory, Representation and Significance Fifty-Five Years After-
Pascale Bos
Professor, Germanic Studies / Netherlandic Studies
Nov. 24 (Wed), 4:30

Spring 1999 Lectures

GOETHE'S 250th BIRTHDAY

1st Lecture: WO EREIGNEN SICH DIE FARBEN?
- Goethe's "Theory of Colour" -
(in German)
Lars Gustafsson, Jamail Distinguished Professor in the Plan II Honors Program
February 26 (Fr), 4:30, Reading Gallery (EPS 4.102B)

2nd Lecture: MEASURING THE ETERNAL FEMININE
- Some Thoughts on Meter & Gender Politics in Goethe's Verse -
(in English)
Hubert Heinen, Germanic Studies
March 10 (Wed), 4:30, Conference Room (EPS 4.104)

3rd Lecture: FAUSTS WEG VON WORT ZU TAT
- Goethes Drama im Lichte seiner Naturphilosophie -
(in German)
Erol Boran, Germanic Studies
March 31 (Wed), 4:30, Conference Room (EPS 4.104)

Special!!! GOETHE PARTY
- Poetic, Dramatic, and Musical Works by Goethe -
April 9 (Fr), 8:00 pm, LOCATION TBA

4th Lecture: "...EIN UNGEHEURER KONFEKTAUFSATZ"
- Goethe's Willkuerkritik in seinem Roman "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" -
(in German)
Yvonne Wuebben, Germanic Studies
April 16 (Fr), 4:30, Conference Room (EPS 4.104)

5th Lecture: GOETHE'S "NOTEN UND ABHANDLUNGEN ZU BESSEREM VERSTAENDNIS DES WEST- OESTLICHEN DIVANS"
- A Critique of Goethe's Image of Arabic Culture -
(in English)
Nina Berman, Professor of Germanic Studies
May 5 (Wed), 4:30, Conference Room (EPS 4.104)

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